Root Beer Man
@linusr.bsky.social
root beer man knows his purpose
because all the most dynamic and economically weighty tech is owned by 9 guys, talking about attitudes toward “tech,” at this moment, is a false abstraction — the “tech industry” means the preferences of the 9 guys
December 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
because all the most dynamic and economically weighty tech is owned by 9 guys, talking about attitudes toward “tech,” at this moment, is a false abstraction — the “tech industry” means the preferences of the 9 guys
an old thing i harp on, but truly— nobody ‘ceded’ anything — for the most part, people are just observing the politics (and often, the detailed political proclamations) of the guys who own the biggest and fastest moving tech stuff!!
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
an old thing i harp on, but truly— nobody ‘ceded’ anything — for the most part, people are just observing the politics (and often, the detailed political proclamations) of the guys who own the biggest and fastest moving tech stuff!!
he sounds afraid to me in this one, which is unusual, and also fits what you are saying.
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
he sounds afraid to me in this one, which is unusual, and also fits what you are saying.
even children love and hate and feel pleasure and curiosity. maybe he’s like a very very newborn infant. but even that seems like an insult to some very fine babies i’ve met
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
even children love and hate and feel pleasure and curiosity. maybe he’s like a very very newborn infant. but even that seems like an insult to some very fine babies i’ve met
i think he’s worse off than any small child i’ve met
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
i think he’s worse off than any small child i’ve met
he actually seems in many ways to resemble a reptilian animal or maybe a neurotic dog… he needs to dominate, provoke, protect himself, but he has no human ‘motives,’ no ‘ends’—he doesn’t ‘get’/‘experience’ any of these: ‘pleasure,’ ‘honor,’ ‘knowledge,’ ‘justice,’ ‘friendship,’ ‘love,’ even ’hate’…
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
he actually seems in many ways to resemble a reptilian animal or maybe a neurotic dog… he needs to dominate, provoke, protect himself, but he has no human ‘motives,’ no ‘ends’—he doesn’t ‘get’/‘experience’ any of these: ‘pleasure,’ ‘honor,’ ‘knowledge,’ ‘justice,’ ‘friendship,’ ‘love,’ even ’hate’…
i actually doubt he has wants (he clearly feels no pleasure) or anger (anger is moral)! he seems at a lower level: needs dominance (doesn’t know for what), needs to make others ‘react’; all he pursues is mysterious to him (it’s why he has no taste); he knows ppl react to Shiny and Mean but not why…
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
i actually doubt he has wants (he clearly feels no pleasure) or anger (anger is moral)! he seems at a lower level: needs dominance (doesn’t know for what), needs to make others ‘react’; all he pursues is mysterious to him (it’s why he has no taste); he knows ppl react to Shiny and Mean but not why…
i’m puzzled by this claim. deism is not weakened by any form of evolutionary theory. ‘the universe was set up intelligently, but now is left to work itself out without miraculous intervention’ is perfectly compatible with any form of theory that says ‘there are physical (or biological, etc.) laws’
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
i’m puzzled by this claim. deism is not weakened by any form of evolutionary theory. ‘the universe was set up intelligently, but now is left to work itself out without miraculous intervention’ is perfectly compatible with any form of theory that says ‘there are physical (or biological, etc.) laws’
for sure— but he’s way, way beyond anything average even in that community
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
for sure— but he’s way, way beyond anything average even in that community
like when he was talking about without heaven nobody would be good— the idea of doing right by others doesn’t even present itself to his mind as a prima facie reason for (not-)doing anything. not: he decides against prioritizing it, but: he doesnt understand that it even could be a reason for anyone
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
like when he was talking about without heaven nobody would be good— the idea of doing right by others doesn’t even present itself to his mind as a prima facie reason for (not-)doing anything. not: he decides against prioritizing it, but: he doesnt understand that it even could be a reason for anyone
it’s a deep point!!
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
it’s a deep point!!
people want ‘the evil personality’ to be complex and interesting, but the truth of evil is that it is an absence, a lack, a void (arendt, augustine). one can’t really understand “nothing”—but one would hope people would have the sense at least to recoil from it
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
people want ‘the evil personality’ to be complex and interesting, but the truth of evil is that it is an absence, a lack, a void (arendt, augustine). one can’t really understand “nothing”—but one would hope people would have the sense at least to recoil from it
condemning him is one thing but i’m more just recognizing how truly bizarre his psychology is. not even normal among narcissists or whatever. an aberrantly reptilian point of view. some of the stuff he seems to flout it seems like he actually truly doesn’t ‘get’
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
condemning him is one thing but i’m more just recognizing how truly bizarre his psychology is. not even normal among narcissists or whatever. an aberrantly reptilian point of view. some of the stuff he seems to flout it seems like he actually truly doesn’t ‘get’
he also has a deeply abnormal relationship with shame, morality, and the idea of cheating. like, statistically very rare. even without the servants he’d be in a different world than the one most people inhabit
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
he also has a deeply abnormal relationship with shame, morality, and the idea of cheating. like, statistically very rare. even without the servants he’d be in a different world than the one most people inhabit
the freudmarx synthesis was a true disaster, though i basically like both of their books
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
the freudmarx synthesis was a true disaster, though i basically like both of their books
are there favorability polls on him specifically?
if so, this would be one of the most informative data about ’what comes next’ that, e.g., @gemorris.bsky.social could put an average together for…a big “?” in our whole conjuncture is how many really have gone nazi or whether they just like “trump”
if so, this would be one of the most informative data about ’what comes next’ that, e.g., @gemorris.bsky.social could put an average together for…a big “?” in our whole conjuncture is how many really have gone nazi or whether they just like “trump”
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
are there favorability polls on him specifically?
if so, this would be one of the most informative data about ’what comes next’ that, e.g., @gemorris.bsky.social could put an average together for…a big “?” in our whole conjuncture is how many really have gone nazi or whether they just like “trump”
if so, this would be one of the most informative data about ’what comes next’ that, e.g., @gemorris.bsky.social could put an average together for…a big “?” in our whole conjuncture is how many really have gone nazi or whether they just like “trump”
his concepts do have a sort of rightist bent (folkloric eldritch wisdom swings that way)…but so do freud’s (our future written in the stone that is our deep animalistic past)… i think the real mystery is why *either* of them got taken up by the left, since both forbid any hopes for a better future
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
his concepts do have a sort of rightist bent (folkloric eldritch wisdom swings that way)…but so do freud’s (our future written in the stone that is our deep animalistic past)… i think the real mystery is why *either* of them got taken up by the left, since both forbid any hopes for a better future
reading jung is not an altogether disagreeable pasttime, but it is worth knowing well and minding whilst one reads how utterly disgusting of a man he was, a true dog who makes freud (also remarkably terrible, often) look like mister virtue
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
reading jung is not an altogether disagreeable pasttime, but it is worth knowing well and minding whilst one reads how utterly disgusting of a man he was, a true dog who makes freud (also remarkably terrible, often) look like mister virtue
probably not unrelated to jung‘s having agreed to head the official nazi psychiatry school (whose main textbook was mein kampf) after they threw all his former friends the psychoanalyst jews out of the country or into auschwitz
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
probably not unrelated to jung‘s having agreed to head the official nazi psychiatry school (whose main textbook was mein kampf) after they threw all his former friends the psychoanalyst jews out of the country or into auschwitz
i think barrett maybe but roberts?? roberts is the ringleader!! he just has a normal guy face
December 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
i think barrett maybe but roberts?? roberts is the ringleader!! he just has a normal guy face
Reposted by Root Beer Man
columbus was very bad and columbus was not the worst on his expedition are compatible statements to my eyes
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
columbus was very bad and columbus was not the worst on his expedition are compatible statements to my eyes
there is like an *exact* correspondence to this in columbus’s logs where he meets the taino and says ‘they’re so friendly, would make great slaves’ and las casas appends a comment along the lines of ‘look at this, you could not ask for better proof of what an incredibly sick fuckhead columbus was’
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
there is like an *exact* correspondence to this in columbus’s logs where he meets the taino and says ‘they’re so friendly, would make great slaves’ and las casas appends a comment along the lines of ‘look at this, you could not ask for better proof of what an incredibly sick fuckhead columbus was’